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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c743020 | The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not. | John Green | ||
| ef12be4 | So how's it going?" "Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?" "Yeah," I said. "Sucks," he said. | John Green | ||
| 07f985c | The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was. | sadness | John Green | |
| 2dcd2fd | You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade. You are amazing. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. | John Green | ||
| a4fd1db | I pray. I go to mass. I even remember to respect my elders and help little old ladies across the street. What the hell did I do to deserve this? | humor | Lora Leigh | |
| 66d940b | Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 0c68615 | it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. | men | Muriel Spark | |
| a5332c7 | Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 193b5b5 | She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 6291108 | Girl, you're the Sentinel of this House, and you've been trained by Catcher and Luc and Ethan. He's in the training room right now. Get down there and kick his ass! | Chloe Neill | ||
| 8fb18d3 | Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings | John Piper | ||
| 84a8a88 | The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to lear.. | T.H. White | ||
| c1339be | So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will believe the same about you. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b4e588b | Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 9c33e1f | Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 5810040 | Ideas come and go, stories stay. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 22f2a8d | In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her. | narcissism truth | Alison Bechdel | |
| 2935a29 | All these young mothers chauffeuring their volcanic three-year-olds through the grocery store. The child's name always sounds vaguely presidental, and he or she tends to act accordingly. "Mommy hears what you're saying about treats," the woman will say, "But right now she needs you to let go of her hair and put the chocolate-covered Life Savers back where they came from." "No!" screams McKinley or Madison, Kennedy or Lincoln or beet-faced b.. | David Sedaris | ||
| f48a454 | If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first." | brian-tracy difficult frog goal hard hardship life opportunity task | Brian Tracy | |
| d8b9234 | Bring it on, fur-ass! | fairies werewolves | Charlaine Harris | |
| 8560df3 | Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ae69dcc | You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all. | critical-thinking defiance dissent empowerment freedom social-order | Naomi Wolf | |
| 63153cd | It was likely that no one had been surprised, however, as it was clear that Aline and McKenna belonged together. There was something invisible and yet irrefutable that made them a couple. Perhaps it was the way both of them stole quick glances at each other when one though the other wasn't looking... glances of wonder and hunger. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 9da679a | Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 688fa4d | You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could have been with each other. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach an.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 8ea267b | Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? | humor romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| d68f8d4 | If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough. | John Irving | ||
| 71ee021 | If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind? | John Irving | ||
| 3e169d9 | The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b9cceea | I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to o.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 2cb2bb9 | I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him, still smiling. I adopted his soothing tones. "Indeed, you are the only man I won't shoot. But if I aimed at anyone else, it might give others a dangerously mistaken sense of their own safety." I raised my voice a trifle, though it wasn't really necessary. "We will have another vote, Xorcheus." They elected m.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 487c7cf | It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 00e3ba7 | She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her. | worth | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 9fb799a | A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| ae6cc5e | What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? | Diane Setterfield | ||
| e9335c9 | Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 5f510ad | You cannot be the good all the time -- sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh] | Irving Stone | ||
| 16dddf5 | What struck me on the beach-and it struck me indeed, so that I staggered as at a blow-was that if the Eternal Principle had rested in that curved thorn I had carried about my neck across so many leagues, and if it now rested in the new thorn (perhaps the same thorn) I had only now put there, then it might rest in everything, in every thorn in every bush, in every drop of water in the sea. The thorn was a sacred Claw because all thorns were .. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| 55a7627 | Why would the stars want to look down on such as me? | asoiaf george-r-r-martin jaime-lannister stars | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5ef403b | I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction. "I take that back," he said with precisely clipped words. "First I am going to strangle you, and then I am going to kill you." "Here?" she asked doubtfully, looking around. "Won't my dead body look suspicious in the morning?" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 0262812 | He gave her his best smile. His best I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at least that's how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn't a very accomplished flirt, and it might very well have come across as an Iam- mildly-deranged-so-it's-in-all-of-our-best-interests-if-youpretend- to-agree-with-me smile. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 07abf89 | Gareth turned to Gregory. "Your sister will be safe with me," he said. "I give you my vow." "Oh, I have no worries on that score," Gregory said with a bland smile. "The real question is--will you be safe with her?" It was a good thing, Gareth later reflected, that Hyacinth had already quit the room to fetch her coat and her maid. She probably would have killed her brother on the spot." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 233a158 | You'll be seeing him tomorrow night, anyway." "I am?" Hyacinth asked, at precisely the moment Mr. St. Clair said, "She will?" "You're accompanying me to the Pleinsworth poetry reading," Lady D told her grandson. "Or have you forgotten?" Hyacinth sat back, enjoying the sight of Gareth St. Clair's mouth opening and closing in obvious distress. He looked a bit like a fish, she decided. A fish with the features of a Greek god, but still, a fish.. | humor | Julia Quinn | |
| 16b486e | First of all, this goes no further than this room." "Agreed," she said quickly. Anthony looked pointedly at Simon. "Of course," he replied. "Mother would be devastated if she learned the truth." "Actually," Simon murmured, "I rather think your mother would applaud our ingenuity, but since you have quite obviously known her longer, I bow to your discretion." Anthony shot him a frosty look. "Second, under no circumstances are the two of you .. | conditions humor | Julia Quinn |